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Parties urged to lift green efforts

Environment groups are calling on the major parties to improve their environmental policies the lead up to the state election.

The Wilderness Society, Environment Victoria, the Victorian National Parks Association and Friends of the Earth have released an updated scorecard assessing each of the political parties.

The Wilderness Society's Gavan McFadzean says environmentalists are disappointed with Labor and the Coalition's election commitments so far.

"Labor and the Liberals have both fallen way behind and in fact failed the scorecard, although there is a big difference between Labor who are close to 50 per cent and the Liberals who are lagging behind under 15 per cent, so both the major parties have a long way to go," he said.